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TIL the Word “Faggot” is posted on twitter about 50,000 times a day

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xReB TIL that at 73 years old, Ronald Reagan received a recruiting letter from the Marine Corps while he was President
KYQJ TIL Einstein proposed in an inch long equation: “Gravity” doesn’t pull, instead space pushes. “Gravity” is only the apparent effect of the bends in space. G = 8 π T
wL5g7 TIL in 2016, 'Getty Images' sold some of the 100,000+ photos that had been donated, royalty-free, to the Library of Congress by the original photographer and Getty Images then demanded payment from the photographer, for using the photos she owned. She sued them (unsuccessfully) for over $1 billion.
JAWk TIL that Toyota was founded by a man named Akio Toyoda, but named Toyota because of Japanese superstition: writing the symbols “Toyota” requires 8 brushstrokes, a lucky number in Japan, while the 10 brushstrokes of “Toyoda” is an inauspicious sign.
VKa0 TIL in 1924, the first Olympic Winter Games, Canada scored 132 goals and let in 3 in the entire ice hockey competition.